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J. D. Vance: “My wife made this point actually, a few years ago. She was…”

Featuring: J. D. Vance, Republican | Vice President of the United States | National

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Podcast Conversation with Vice President J.D. Vance at Kid Rock's Nashville Restaurant

Published | Video Starts at 08:13

And you get this sense it's sad and it's heartbreaking. You know, they read letters from some guy home to his family, and it's just. It captures the tragedy of the Civil War. And My wife made this point actually, a few years ago. She was like, if you showed that documentary, maybe not now, but, like, at the height of the woke thing, to call it 2021, you showed that documentary in 2021. There are a lot of things they would try to cancel Ken Burns over because, you know, like, a Confederate soldier wrote a. Wrote a letter home. And it's sad and it's tragic, and you try to empathize with that person, and that was. That's like. That wasn't okay in 2021. (08:13–08:32)

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Asserts that Ken Burns' Civil War documentary would face cancelation attempts in 2021.

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